13-Aug-18 World View -- A 'historic' Caspian Sea agreement leaves major issues unresolved

[John]

13-Aug-18 World View -- A 'historic' Caspian Sea agreement leaves major issues unresolved



Major issues about commercial exploitation remain unresolved

** 13-Aug-18 World View -- A 'historic' Caspian Sea agreement leaves major issues unresolved
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e180813



Contents:
A 'historic' Caspian Sea agreement leaves major issues unresolved
Major issues about commercial exploitation remain unresolved


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Caspian, Russia, Iran,
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Soviet Union,
Vladimir Putin, Trans-Caspian Pipeline, TCP,
Black Sea, Nato, Afghanistan

[Tom Mazanec]

and it can't be a sea because it's connected to any of the world's oceans.

Not connected

And the Caspian is the worlds largest lake. Just because it's called a sea does not make it one, or the Aral and Dead seas are seas. If you make an exception, do you make one for Superior?

[Silent Guest 2]

The value of selective agenda meetings is the avoidance of total reality. Of course, there's that old bug-a-boo of no mutual term definitions. Now all get weekends by the shore.
Oh, look at that can being kicked down the sand.

[Guest]

and it can't be a sea because it's connected to any of the world's oceans.

Not connected

And the Caspian is the worlds largest lake. Just because it's called a sea does not make it one, or the Aral and Dead seas are seas. If you make an exception, do you make one for Superior?

The difference is that a lake has an exit. For Lake Superior there is an exit called the St. Lawrence River that flows into the Atlantic Ocean. A consequence of this difference is that a sea will have saltier water than a lake, because it only loses water through evaporation but dousn't lose salt at all. In a way, a typical lake and a sea have more in common with one another than they do with a "salt lake" or "internal sea" like the Caspian Sea, because both a typical lake and a sea in some way connect to the ocean.

All of this is irrelevant to diplomacy, which is driven entirely by politics and not by facts at all.